I mentioned last week that today, Christ the King Sunday, marks the end of a cycle. It not only ends the season of Pentecost, but next Sunday marks the beginning of the Christmas season, Advent. 2,422 more words

Do you remember the most famous person you have ever met …the moment of that meeting…perhaps the setting: time, place, even what you were wearing … and how that person’s influence shifted something deep within you? 1,027 more words

Life – a rollercoster ride of experiences, pressures, joys, thrills, pain, so many different possibilities – good and bad.Sometimes life seems hard to bare. The experiences that come upon us; the things we see happening to others that we find hard to believe, never mind understand; life and all its colours. 812 more words

“As is appropriate for the celebration of Christ the King Sunday, each of the passages for this day concerns the nature of kingly power…The exercise of kingly power…is on behalf of God’s people rather than over against them.” (from “Texts for Preaching,” Cousar et al.) 723 more words